Edit Your Posts

Posted on November 18, 2008 and last modified on May 5th, 2009.

One of the things I really miss when trying out new themes is that many do not include an Edit Post Link function. ‘And what is that exactly’, I hear you ask? Well it’s nothing too special but it is almost an essential. You see, without it, whenever you make a mistake in a post [or just want to make some changes] and need to go back in and edit it, you have to log in to your admin panel, find the post you want to edit and then go about the business. Not super hard of course, but just that little bit annoying in a world where we all try to find the easiest [least-clickable] option.

So, to add a link to your posts which will only show to your eyes [once you are logged in and have not logged out that is], you just need to add a small bit of code wherever you would like to be able to ‘click and edit’.

The Codex spells this out succinctly and for the easiest way to implement this, all you need to do is add

usually within the surrounds of the post itself, such as next to the meta, comments or at the end of the post content/excerpt. This will provide you with a simple link with the word ‘edit; which allows you immediate access to the post and saves onthe login -admin panel – find the post procedure as outlined previously.

If you have more than one writer on your site but would like to restrict the edit function to a particular level, i.e. admin, then this excellent code may be the way to go as well.

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